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| Scroll down the website to read much more news on One Click or go to the News Archives SUMMARY * Digital Economy Bill Threatens One Click  One Click Group Director, Jane Bryant Suppression of free speech in Britain is to be made law. The Digital Economy Bill is set to cause civil unrest and put our economy and national security at risk just before the General Election. Having been personally subjected to brutal false arrest by the State because of the work of One Click in 2005, together with constant litigation threats and harassment at the hands of the very politicians who are attempting to criminally rush the Digital Economy Bill through parliament without debate or consent, I think you will all agree that it is entirely reasonable for me to surmise that One Click will be near the top of the political Disconnect Wish List. Would you like the work of One Click to continue? That of WikiLeaks? Of vast swathes of British society who use the internet as a fundamental human right? Do you uphold the principle of free speech? It is precisely the work of organisations such as One Click that the Digital Economy Bill will seek to suppress. This unlawful bill of wash-up unconscionable arrogance and unforgivable folly is the creature of unelected Labour government aide Peter Mandelson. Please get in touch with Mandelson whose contact details we now place in the public domain courtesy of 38 Degrees for ease of use by our readers from Australia to Alaska and beyond. Please globally help us to make your views known. Join hands and stay connected for the good of all. This is a significant point in political history. Defeat this unlawful bill now. Jane Bryant, Director, The One Click Group Related Links: * Freedom Of Information, Police Harassment In The Internet Era Updated March 2010, with tasty new pictures and copy The One Click Group * UK Government Vaccines Director Threatens Legal Action Against One Click The One Click Group * Fury Over Rushed Digital Economy Bill Leads To Civil Unrest  Peter Mandelson, Digital Economy Bill architect The rushed process of getting the digital economy bill through Parliament has prompted an angry groundswell of people using 38Degrees to lobby their MPs to block it. The newly-created page on the 38Degrees site lets people find their MP via their postcode, and then email them to demand that the bill gets a proper debate - or is abandoned for this Parliament. Tony Hirst of the Open University asks whether clause 97B could be used to block sites like Wikileaks which exists for the reposting of material from organisations - which those organisations could argue is copyrighted. There's plenty to oppose in the digital economy bill, it gives the government the ability to disconnect millions. Schools, libraries and businesses could see their connection cut if their pupils, readers or customers infringe any copyright. The key question now: will MPs be listening, will they take action, and will that make any difference? It might be the sort of thing that could win you votes... The Guardian Related Links: * Stop The Disconnection Demo Launches At Parliament Demo Information, Open Rights Group * Criminal Whitewash: UK Digital Economy Bill Barry Collins, PC Pro * Open Letter - Bill threatens UK’s reputation Tom Alexander, Chief Executive Orange et al, Financial Times * UK Industry And Electorate Alike Condemn Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill Sophie Curtis, eWeek Europe * HSS Preparing To Handle Swine Flu Vaccine Claims  H1N1 WASHINGTON — While the pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine seems to be just as safe as seasonal flu vaccines, the federal government has been getting some letters from people saying they plan to seek compensation for injuries caused by the injection, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. As of March 11, HHS had received letters from 106 people saying they plan to submit claims for compensation benefits because of problems related to the vaccine. The CICP was established under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, passed in 2005, which shields pharmaceutical companies and medical providers from most lawsuits claiming harm from medical countermeasures for pandemic flu. One Click Note: This is the pharmaceutical industry's get-out clause. Not only did it hoax billions of dollars out of respective taxpayers' for the damaging and unnecessary Swine Flu vaccines, but it also got most governments around the world to agree to grant its products legal immunity. This has been one of the greatest government orchestrated taxpayer swindles of all time. Rita Uplend, Vaccine News Daily Related Links: * Swine Flu Pandemic Hysteria Hoax Heads For Court R. C. Camphausen, Digital Journal * The men who made a killing out of swine flu while we wasted £1bn and were exposed to harmful drugs Special Investigation Tom Rawstorne, Daily Mail * UK Government Swine Flu Drug Dealers Forgot To Insert Cancel Clause In £200m Contract Victoria Fletcher, Daily Express * The Deadly Cervical Cancer Bazaar - Health Authorities' Cover Up  In Khammam, besides Sayamma and Sarita’s deaths, around 120 students developed complications after the HPV vaccination — ranging from epileptic fits, allergies, diarrhoea, dizziness and nausea. The vaccine drive raises serious ethical questions. Did the producers of this drug and their field partners declare the full range of possible side-effects? Did the parents of these minors give “informed” consent? What is the criterion on which the target population for the vaccine was selected? “This is a very serious cover-up,” says CPM leader Brinda Karat, who plans to raise the issue in Parliament. "India needs to be careful about the side-effects of these vaccines and a detailed investigation should be done by the Health Ministry as to why these tribal and semi-literate girls were picked for such a drive." Shantanu Guha Ray & Kunal Majumder, Tehelka, Vol 7, Issue 11 * Anapol Schwartz Attorneys File HPV Vaccine Lawsuits  Anapol Schwartz attorneys Lawrence Cohan and Melissa Fry Hague recently filed two Gardasil vaccine complaints - one on behalf of a Kensington, Calif., family, whose 15-year old daughter died after suffering from severe adverse reactions, and another on behalf of a 19-year old Lapeer, Mich., woman, who has a chronic, autoimmune disorder. "Our two cases represent an increasing number of recent, adverse reaction reports we're seeing in young women who have received the Gardasil vaccine. The outcomes in these matters have been horrific," says co-lead counsel Cohan, a New Jersey Certified Civil Trial Attorney representing more than 50 consumers with Gardasil claims. Medical News Today Related Links: * New Report Raises Gardasil Vaccine Concerns Information Release, NewsInferno * WHO Suspends Sanofi Shan5 Child Vaccine Amid Probe  The World Health Organization is conducting a probe into Sanofi-Aventis SA’s Shan5 vaccine, used to prevent childhood diseases in poor nations, after reports of a white sediment forming on the glass of some vials. “An investigation is ongoing and we’ve advised countries to put any remaining vaccine in quarantine until further notice,” said WHO spokeswoman Melinda Henry in a phone interview today. The shot is a combination to prevent diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, haemophilus influenza B, and hepatitis B. About 23 million doses have been shipped to United Nations agencies in 12 countries, mostly in Africa, Sanofi’s Pasteur vaccine unit said in an e-mailed statement today. The vaccine is produced at a plant in Hyderabad, India. Sanofi dropped 93 cents, or 1.6 percent, to close at 56.28 euros in Paris trading. Trista Kelley & Dermot Doherty, Bloomberg Business Week * Stop The Disconnection Demo Launches At Parliament  It's time to show MPs what we think about the Digital Economy Bill. As it stands now, the Bill, if passed into law, will allow disconnection, web blocking and could well see the death of open wifi. Come along to the ORG demo on Wednesday, 24 March at 17:30, at Old Palace Yard (opposite Parliament, next to Westminster Abbey) and protest against disconnection and censorship on the internet. Disconnection is collective punishment. It is unacceptable. It is unfair and it is disproportionate. Gig with The Indelicates after the demo at The Monarch in Camden. Or set up your own demo. Choose a prominent place in your home town, if possible a local party HQ or MP constituency office. Let us know and we'll advertise it on our website. See you there! Demo Information, Open Rights Group Related Links: * Protests - House Of Lords Rushes Digital Economy Bill Without Consent Information Release, Music :) Ally * Don't Let The Labour Government Disconnect The Internet Information Release, Don't Disconnect Us Campaign * What Panorama Didn't Talk About - Our Rights  Yesterday, I debated the Digital Economy Bill in front of law students and academics. The debate could not have been more different from last night’s Panorama programme. Graham Smith of Bird & Bird outlined the legal situation. Then Richard Mollett of the BPI outlined his ‘top ten’ myths about the Digital Economy Bill, in a point by point attack on such well known radical critics as Liberty, Consumer Focus, JANET and the British Library. He did fail to mention that other group of political dissenters, MI5. The BPI is waging a war on every citizen in the country by demanding disconnection. Everyone’s rights are being curtailed in the name of their business interests. They are manipulating the political process and distorting the legislation that results. They have gone so far as to suggest that politicians should evade democratic scrutiny of the Digital Economy Bill. Our concern is our rights, democracy, and the future of our society, which is being built on the internet. We do not withdraw the basic tool of society without the most extreme reason. We certainly do not do such a thing without a massive public and democratic debate. Click to demand democracy now. Jim Killock, Open Rights Group Related Links: * Criminal Whitewash: UK Digital Economy Bill Barry Collins, PC Pro * Open Letter - Bill threatens UK’s reputation Tom Alexander, Chief Executive Orange et al, Financial Times * UK Industry And Electorate Alike Condemn Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill Sophie Curtis, eWeek Europe * Michigan Invokes Terrorism To Refuse Swine Flu Costs FOIA Request  The state of Michigan passed out millions of dollars in federal funds to private and public groups during the H1N1 crisis in 2009, but where that money actually went appears to be a closely guarded secret. The Michigan Department of Community Health refuses to release the identities of those organizations receiving $42 million — and they base that refusal on Michigan’s anti-terrorism laws. That denial has experts in government transparency seeing red. Chetly Zarko, director of The Michigan Transparency Project said that the law was intended to target people who were planning to commit terror acts, not people asking government to provide accountability for where tax payer dollars are being sent. Todd A. Heywood, Michigan Messenger Related Links: * The H1N1-Swine Flu Hoax Fiasco Post Mortem Michael Werbowski, Author, Global Research * FDA: Conflict of Interest in Vaccine Approval Confirmed Michael Mooney, West Hollywood News * Swine Flu Chief Drug Dealer UK...Please Go Away  Sir Liam Donaldson, UK Flying Pigs Club CEO (Caption Courtesy Of One Click) I do find it surprising to be given advice from a man whose spectacular misjudgement of a mild but very infectious disease has cost the taxpayer £1,000,000,000. Yep, £1 billion on 'swine' flu - the pandemic that wasn't. His ludicrous helpline manned by window cleaners, and the absurd and hopeless pr spectacle of 65,000 deaths. The flogging of quasi-placebos in the form of Tamiflu. And much else. This joker has not actually had a consultation with a patient for 20 years! Yes, you've guessed it! Our Chief Medical Officer ('Sir' Liam Donaldson). I look forward to his disappearance from the post he has occupied for the last 12 years. The Jobbing Doctor, General Practioner Related Links: * Swine Flu Pandemic Hysteria Hoax Heads For Court R. C. Camphausen, Digital Journal * The men who made a killing out of swine flu while we wasted £1bn and were exposed to harmful drugs Special Investigation Tom Rawstorne, Daily Mail * UK Government Swine Flu Drug Dealers Forgot To Insert Cancel Clause In £200m Contract Victoria Fletcher, Daily Express * Team To Probe Four Babies Dead And 17 Ill After Vaccine Shots  BHOPAL: Union health ministry has rushed a team of vaccination experts to investigate the death of four infants in Damoh town in north Madhya Pradesh. Twenty infants below the age of two years were administered tetanus and anti-measles vaccine in two anganwadi centres on Friday. Four of these children, aged less than one year, died after vomiting and frothing from the mouth and nose. The Times Of India Related Links: * Four Babies Dead And 17 Ill After Vaccine Shots Suchandana Gupta, The Times Of India * Tuberculosis Vaccine Trial Stopped Due To Deaths Cluster  Objective: To determine whether BCG revaccination at 19 months of age reduces overall child mortality. Results: 77 children died during follow-up. Compared with controls, the BCG revaccinated children had a hazard ratio of 1.20 (95% confidence interval 0.77 to 1.89). Two hundred and fifty children were admitted to hospital for the first time between enrolment and the end of the study, with an incidence rate ratio for BCG revaccinated children versus controls of 1.04 (0.81 to 1.33). The trial was stopped prematurely because of a cluster of deaths in the BCG arm of the study. Adam Edvin Roth et al, British Medical Journal 2010;340:c671 * Criminal Whitewash: UK Digital Economy Bill  The controversial Digital Economy Bill has passed through the House of Lords and is now set for a lightning-fast passage through the Commons. The lack of scrutiny is particularly worrying given that the controversial clause 17 - which potentially involves Ministers tampering with copyright law and ISPs being forced to block access to sites carrying copyrighted material - has been set aside to be settled in the Commons as a whitewash. The Government has a duty to examine legislation properly. At this late stage, there will be no democratic debate. Jim Killock, the chief executive of the Open Rights Group, told PC Pro that the legislative process was 'highly illegitimate'. Killock added, "It's not just web censorship, but actions to disconnect people from the internet. We certainly haven't had a national debate about it." One Click Note: This rump Parliament is failing to recognise public opinion and the civil unrest that is set to be created by the passage of this insanely retrogressive bill. For data nightmare Gordon Brown to actually seek to damage the economy and national security on the eve of a General Election by forcing this bill through without consent is the political death kiss. See you all at the riots. Barry Collins, PC Pro Related Links: * Open Letter - Bill threatens UK’s reputation Tom Alexander, Chief Executive Orange et al, Financial Times * UK Industry And Electorate Alike Condemn Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill Sophie Curtis, eWeek Europe * Protests - House Of Lords Rushes Digital Economy Bill Without Consent  The UK’s Digital Economy Bill is a step closer to becoming law, as it was passed last night by the House of Lords. “Our elected MPs will have spent a whole two hours on this bill… before they disappear back to constituencies to ask for our vote,” says Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group. “Meanwhile, a ‘rump parliament’ made up of retiring MPs and party whips will pass disconnection measures – with no actual debate.” UK ISP TalkTalk has ramped up its campaign against the bill, releasing research claiming that 80% of 18-34 year-olds will switch to ‘undetectable’ ways of downloading music for free if the bill becomes law. Meanwhile, TalkTalk has also commissioned a spoof song and video from musician Dan Bull to support its anti-DEB campaign. Home Taping Is Killing Music went live on YouTube this week and is now published on One Click. Enjoy! Information Release, Music :) Ally Related Links: * Don't Let The Labour Government Disconnect The Internet Information Release, Don't Disconnect Us Campaign * U.S. Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks  Julian Assange, Editor, WikiLeaks This document is a classified (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. ``The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out''. It concocts a plan to fatally marginalize the organization. Since WikiLeaks uses ``trust as a center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insiders, leakers or whisteblowers'', the report recommends ``The identification, exposure, termination of employment, criminal prosecution, legal action against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistlblowers could potentially damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others considering similar actions from using the Wikileaks.org Web site''. [As two years have passed since the date of the report, with no WikiLeaks' source exposed, it appears that this plan was ineffective]. As an odd justification for the plan, the report claims that ``Several foreign countries including China, Israel, North Kora, Russia, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe have denounced or blocked access to the Wikileaks.org website''. The report provides further justification by enumerating embarrassing stories broken by WikiLeaks---U.S. equipment expenditure in Iraq, probable U.S. violations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay... Julian Assange, Editor, WikiLeaks Release Related Links: * U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks (Full Text) Wikileaks Release * UK Government Forced To Halt Summary Care Record Medical Database  The Government’s IT managers have dropped plans for a massive acceleration in the rollout of the Summary Care Record amid fury from GPs at the way the process has been handled. The BMA earlier this week called for a mass boycott of the rollout as fears grew that patients were being railroaded into having records created. Connecting for Health has now agreed for GP leaders to issue fresh advice to practices, stating there is no deadline for patients to decide. Ian Quinn, PULSE Related Links: * Opt Out Form NHS Patient Database * Doctors Say NHS Database Raises Privacy Fears James Sturcke & Denis Campbell, The Guardian * State Attempts To Coerce Vaccines Whilst Parents Refuse  For the first time in more than a decade, the state is changing what vaccines are required for children before they can head to school. Most of the changes take effect in July, but not everyone plans to rush to their doctor's office. With a business devoted to providing for children and triplets of her own at home, Sunny Hall has experience with kids. She also has experience with vaccines. After the birth of her children, Hall followed the advice of experts. "We were all fine until six months. We went in and got their shots and when we got home my son just wasn't right," she said. As a result, Hall has no plans of following the state's new requirements. "From what all I've read, and my personal experience, my kids are not going to get any vaccines any time soon," she said. "It is a personal decision, and no one in a white coat is going to force me to inject my child with something that I know is harmful to them." One thing that will not change is a parent's ability to decline vaccines based on health concerns or religious beliefs. Sean Dreher, WBIR Related Links: * Back to the Future: Parental Concerns About Vaccine Safety Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) * Over 50% Of Parents Querying Vaccine Safety Maryn McKenna, CIDRAP News * Overdosed Babies: Are Multiple Vaccines Safe? Neil Z. Miller, ThinkTwice Global Vaccine Institute * Swine Flu Pandemic Hysteria Hoax Heads For Court  Those who suspected a money and greed driven conspiracy behind the 2009 swine flu outbreak, declared a pandemic by overzealous WHO officials and their advisers from within the industry are being proven right by recent revelations. The article Reconstruction of a Mass Hysteria - The Swine Flu Panic of 2009 in Spiegel Online of March 12, Germany's foremost investigative magazine, shows that three weeks before the swine flu was declared a pandemic, 30 senior representatives of pharmaceutical companies met with WHO Director-General Chan and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at WHO headquarters and were mainly interested in one question: the decision to declare Phase 6. Phase 6 acted as a switch that would allow bells on the industry's cash registers to ring, risk-free. That's because many pandemic vaccine contracts had already been signed. Germany signed an agreement with the British firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in 2007 to buy its pandemic vaccine as soon as Phase 6 was declared. This agreement could explain why Professor Roy Anderson, one key scientific advisor to the British government, declared the swine flu a pandemic on May 1. What he neglected to say was that GSK was paying him an annual salary of more than €130,000 ($177,000). This Der Spiegel article may serve as a guide to real evidence when a multitude of individuals and nations will soon take the companies and individuals to court. R. C. Camphausen, Digital Journal Related Links: * Part 1, The Swine Flu Panic of 2009 & Part 2, The Swine Flu Panic of 2009 Reconstruction Of A Mass Hysteria Der Spiegel * The men who made a killing out of swine flu while we wasted £1bn and were exposed to harmful drugs Special Investigation Tom Rawstorne, Daily Mail * UK Government Swine Flu Drug Dealers Forgot To Insert Cancel Clause In £200m Contract Victoria Fletcher, Daily Express * Pharmaceutical Industry Cried Wolf Over Swine Flu For Profit Staff Writer, RT * World Health Organisation ‘Mr Swine Flu’ Under Investigation For Gross Conflict Of Interest F. William Engdahl, Market Oracle * New Report - Vitamin D Better Than Vaccines At Preventing Flu  The risk of children suffering from flu can be halved if they take vitamin D, doctors in Japan have found. The finding has implications for flu epidemics since vitamin D, which is naturally produced by the human body when exposed to direct sunlight, has no significant side effects, costs little and can be several times more effective than anti-viral drugs or vaccine. Anti-virals are also too expensive, and possibly too toxic, to be given to the population as a whole whereas vitamin D has additional benefits. The sunshine vitamin not only prevents bone fractures but is also believed to reduce risks of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other illness, including various bacterial as well as viral infections. Oliver Gillie, The Times Related Links: * New Study Shows Flu Vaccines Are Futile Rubbish Tom Blackwell, National Post * Flu Vaccines Cost A Fortune And Don't Work Eben Harrell, Time Magazine * New Research Shows Annual Flu Vaccine Complete Waste Of Money Jenny Hope, Daily Mail * Influenza Vaccines: Poor Evidence for Effectiveness in Elderly Press Release, Science Daily * Report Links Vaccines To Gulf War Syndrome  (Guardian) – A senior army doctor has provided the first official support for claims that the cocktail of vaccines given to soldiers before the 1991 war in Iraq probably caused illnesses that became known as Gulf war syndrome, it was reported. For 13 years, the MoD has denied that vaccines could be blamed for the illnesses. Independent research has also failed to find conclusive proof of a common link between the vaccines and a Gulf war-related syndrome. However, Lieutenant Colonel Graham Howe, clinical director of psychiatry with the British forces health service in Germany, has made a link between the vaccines and illnesses associated with claims of Gulf war syndrome. Lance-Corporal Izett, 33, who lives in Bersenbruck, near Bremen in Germany, was inoculated, like other troops, against anthrax, botulism and other biological agents. He said he went public with the confidential report, dated September 22 2001, so that other soldiers vaccinated with the same injections could claim compensation for the physical and mental illness they may have suffered as a result. sakerfa, Dprogram.net / The Guardian Related Links: * Science Triumphs For Gulf War Veterans In Their Battle With The VA Denise Nichols, Veterans Today * Veteran Affairs Agree To Review Gulf War Illness Claims Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov USA * Four Babies Dead And 17 Ill After Vaccine Shots Four infants aged below two years died and 17 children fell ill after they were administered an anti-measles and tetanus vaccine at Anganwadi centres in Damoh town, in Madhya Pradesh. The district administration has suspended all vaccination programmes and instructed health officials to stop further immunization until the investigation into the incident was complete. A district hospital nurse, responsible for supply of the vaccines to the Anganwadi workers, has been booked for negligence and destruction of evidence. Suchandana Gupta, The Times Of India * Ex-Pfizer Worker Cites Genetically Engineered Virus In Lawsuit  Medical experts will be watching closely Monday when a scientist who says she has been intermittently paralyzed by a virus designed at the Pfizer laboratory where she worked in Groton opens a much anticipated trial that could raise questions about safety practices in the dynamic field of genetic engineering. Organizations involved in workplace safety and responsible genetic research already have seized on the federal lawsuit by molecular biologist Becky McClain as an example of what they claim is evidence that risks caused by cutting-edge genetic manipulation have outstripped more slowly evolving government regulation of laboratories. Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant * Iceland Sets New Path Toward Press Freedom  If all goes well, Iceland may be about to make history. I’m referring to the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative [IMMI], which combines the world’s best legislation to protect press and information freedom into one path-breaking information freedom bill for Iceland. IMMI attempts to tip the world balance toward press freedom by setting up Iceland as a Mecca of press and information freedom. Key provisions of the IMMI include: whistleblower protections; strong protections for anonymous sources and the journalists and media organizations who deal with them; a strengthening of protections against prior restraint by governments or through use of the courts; and protection for Internet Service Providers [ISPs], preventing them from being held responsible for information passing through their networks. Stephen Soldz, Dissident Voice Related Links: * Iceland - Proposed Free Speech / Investigative Journalism Safe Haven Information Release, Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (IMMI) * Don't Let The Labour Government Disconnect The Internet  Don’t let Peter Mandelson disconnect your internet. The proposals to deter illegal filesharing announced by Lord Mandelson in September are wrong in principle and won’t work in practice. Don’t Disconnect Us is a campaign group initiated by TalkTalk which is opposed to the measures proposed by Lord Mandelson. Here you can find out why we’re so worried, hear what others who share our view say, register your support for our campaign and contribute to the debate. Information Release, Don't Disconnect Us Campaign Related Links: * Open Letter - Bill threatens UK’s reputation Tom Alexander, Chief Executive Orange et al, Financial Times * UK Industry And Electorate Alike Condemn Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill Sophie Curtis, eWeek Europe * Labour Government's Internet Law Threatens Free Speech Iain Hepburn, Daily Record * Corrupt Scientist Who Lied About Vaccines And Autism Vanishes With Millions  F. William Engdahl A Danish psychiatrist (sic!) who played a central role in attempting to whitewash the role of mercury preservatives used in vaccines and the explosive rise in infant autism has apparently stolen $2 million of government research money and vanished. It is yet another black mark on the entire corruption edifice behind the pharma industry and their misuse of vaccines. According to a report from American lawyer and autism activist, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of the assassinated Senator, Dr Poul Thorsen was given millions of dollars by the apparently equally corrupt US Government Center for Disease Control (CDC) to try to disprove the links between infant vaccination and the explosive growth of child autism. Kennedy, who is Chairman of the Waterkeeper Alliance and a law professor at Pace University, has been a prominent critic of the use of mercury-based Thimerosal as a preservative in vaccines given to infants. F. William Engdahl, Author Related Links: * Central Figure in CDC Vaccine Cover-Up Absconds With $2M Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Huffington Post * MPs Criticise Biased Science & Technology Committee Report On Homeopathy  That this House expresses concern at the conclusions of the Science and Technology Committee's Report, Evidence Check on Homeopathy; notes that the Committee took only oral evidence from a limited number of witnesses, including known critics of homeopathy Tracy Brown, the Managing Director of Sense About Science, and journalist Dr Ben Goldacre, who have no expertise in the subject; believes that evidence should have been heard from primary care trusts that commission homeopathy, doctors who use it in a primary care setting, and other relevant organisations, such as the Society of Homeopaths, to provide balance; observes that the Committee did not consider evidence from abroad from countries such as France and Germany, where provision of homeopathy is far more widespread than in the UK, or from India, where it is part of the health service; regrets that the Committee ignored the 74 randomised controlled trials comparing homeopathy with placebo, of which 63 showed homeopathic treatments were effective, and that the Committee recommends no further research. David Tredinnick MP et al, Early Day Motion, Parliament Related Links: * Evidence-Based Medicine is NOT A Cure-All Dr Michael Dixon, PULSE * Patients' Voice Purposefully Excluded From Homeopathy Kangaroo Court Press Release, Alliance of Registered Homeopaths * French Bread Spiked With LSD In CIA Experiment  An American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment. While compiling his book, A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA's Secret Cold War Experiments, Mr Albarelli spoke to former colleagues of Mr Olson, two of whom told him that the Pont-Saint-Esprit incident was part of a mind control experiment run by the CIA and US army. Scientists at Fort Detrick told him that agents had sprayed LSD into the air and also contaminated "local food products". None of his sources would indicate whether the French secret services were aware of the alleged operation. Henry Samuel in Paris, Daily Telegraph Related Links: * Major Diplomatic Scandal Erupts As USA LSD Killer Experiment On 1950's France Exposed F. William Engdahl, Author * UK Industry And Electorate Alike Condemn Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill  British Telecom chief executive Ian Livingstone has joined a group of industry executives and high profile figures – from organisations including Orange, Virgin Media, Google and the Open Rights Group - who have condemned Peter Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill that will censor Free Speech in Britain. “Put simply, blocking access as envisaged by this clause would both widely disrupt the Internet in the UK and elsewhere and threaten freedom of speech and the open Internet, without reducing copyright infringement as intended,” they said. “We are particularly concerned that a measure of this kind as a general purpose policy could have an adverse impact on the reputation of the UK as a place to do online business and conflict with the broader objectives of Digital Britain.” TalkTalk chief Charles Dunstone said he would be prepared to fight the government in court if the Bill became law. Sophie Curtis, eWeek Europe / The One Click Group Related Links: * Open Letter - Bill threatens UK’s reputation Tom Alexander, Chief Executive Orange et al, Financial Times * Labour Government's Internet Law Threatens Free Speech Iain Hepburn, Daily Record * Science Triumphs For Gulf War Veterans In Their Battle With The VA  Janet Raloff’s article in Science News explains the significance of this breaking medical news to the public at large, to physicians and medical professionals, and to the veterans of the Gulf War 1990-91 that have waited almost two decades for vindication. The imagery of the brain scans is evidence of the real damage to the brains of our countless Gulf War 1990-91 veterans. This shows some of the REAL PHYSIOLOGIC DAMAGE that the veterans have stated was there all this time. If only their doctors, researchers, government officials, and agencies had believed in them instead of employing delay and denial techniques of using stress and psychosomatic reasoning as the basis for their complaints. Backed up by the Vietnam Veterans who had pledged “Never Again” they are issuing a call to all of us in the US to demand action. Denise Nichols, Veterans Today * New Study Shows Flu Vaccines Are Futile Rubbish  Study co-author Dr. Tom Jefferson says he "can't see any reason" for vaccinating anyone against flu -- arguing the shots did nothing to save lives -- and that most influenza-vaccine studies are "rubbish" A new Canadian-led study has added to a simmering scientific dispute over flu-shot campaigns, concluding that immunizing nursing-home workers does nothing to cut the number of confirmed influenza cases among the homes' elderly residents. "What troubled us is that shots had no effect on laboratory-confirmed influenza," said Dr. Roger Thomas of the University of Calgary, lead author of the paper published by the respected Cochrane Library. The stakes in the debate are high. Governments spent more than $400-million on acquiring H1N1 pandemic vaccine for Canadians. The Ontario government alone spends about $23-million annually in providing seasonal-flu shots free to anyone who wants them. Tom Blackwell, National Post Related Links: * Flu Vaccines Cost A Fortune And Don't Work Eben Harrell, Time Magazine * New Research Shows Annual Flu Vaccine Complete Waste Of Money Jenny Hope, Daily Mail * Influenza Vaccines: Poor Evidence for Effectiveness in Elderly Press Release, Science Daily * West Coast School Rejects HPV Vaccine  Hokitika's Westland High School has refused to allow anti-cancer vaccine Gardasil to be administered on its premises. Last year, the school's board of trustees was criticised by the Ministry of Health for publishing an article in the school newsletter on the pitfalls of the Gardasil human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. The school's decision comes only days after Wellington woman Rhonda Renata publicly blamed the Gardasil vaccine for the death of her 18-year-old daughter last year. NZPA, The Press Related Links: * New Zealand Calls To Shelve Vaccine Over Adverse Reactions Stuff NZ, The Timaru Herald * Cervical Cancer Vaccine Blinds 16 Year-Old Girl Francis J. DiMario Jr et al, J Child Neurol 2010; 25; 321, DOI: 10.1177/0883073809349322 * UK Teenage Girls Bribed To Take Cervical Cancer Vaccine Without Parental Consent Mail On Sunday Reporter, Sunday Mail / The One Click Group * Calls For Cervarix HPV Vaccine To Be Suspended In The UK Daily Mail Reporter, Daily Mail * New Report Raises Gardasil Vaccine Concerns  Approved in 2006, Gardasil prevents four strains of HPV. As of June 2009, 15 million girls had received Gardasil vaccines and some also reported suffering from adverse reactions that have included dizziness, numbness, and blood clots, among other dangerous and sometimes even deadly reactions. Of note, six percent of the reports were very serious and included “blood clots and Guillain-Barré syndrome,” as well as 32 reports of death. Financial relationships between the medical industry and doctors have caused controversy in recent years. Critics have long held that such relationships create conflicts-of-interest, and could unduly influence everything from research findings to prescribing practices. Information Release, NewsInferno * Wyeth/Pfizer Vaccine Chief Justice Recuses Over Shareholdings  The Supreme Court on Monday announced it was granting review in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, a test of the scope of the pre-emption provision of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. It also noted that Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. "took no part" in the consideration or decision of the Court to take the case. Though the justices almost never reveal their reasons for recusal, this one is almost certainly based on the fact that, as of the last financial disclosure form filed by Roberts in May 2009, he owned stock valued at $15,000 or less in Pfizer Inc. Roberts' stock ownership in Pfizer became an issue in last year's landmark pre-emption case Wyeth v. Levine where he did not recuse in this case. Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal Related Links: * US Supreme Court To Consider Vaccination Lawsuit AFP, France 24 * Central Figure in CDC Vaccine Cover-Up Absconds With $2M  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Chairman, Waterkeeper Alliance; Professor, Pace University Dr Poul Thorsen, a central figure psychiatrist behind the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) claims disputing the link between vaccines and autism and other neurological disorders has disappeared after officials discovered massive fraud involving the theft of millions in taxpayer dollars. Thorsen was a leading member of a Danish research group that wrote several key studies supporting CDC's claims that the MMR vaccine and mercury-laden vaccines were safe for children. His study has long been criticized as fraudulent. CDC has touted the study as the principal proof that mercury-laced vaccines are safe for infants and young children. Psychiatrist Thorsen built a research empire called the North Atlantic Epidemiology Alliances (NANEA) that advertised its close association with the CDC autism team, a relationship that had the agency paying Thorsen and his research staff millions of dollars to churn out research papers, many of them assuring the public on the issue of vaccine safety. Leading independent scientists have accused CDC of concealing the clear link between the dramatic increases in mercury-laced child vaccinations beginning in 1989 and the epidemic of autism, neurological disorders and other illnesses affecting every generation of American children since. Questions about Thorsens's scientific integrity may finally force CDC to rethink the vaccine protocols since most of the other key pro vaccine studies cited by CDC rely on the findings of Thorsen's research group. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Huffington Post * Nanotoxicity In Regulatory Vacuum  A vast and rapidly expanding array of engineered nano-products floods the consumer market unregulated as evidence of toxicities accumulate. These first suspected cases of nanotoxicity from occupational exposure have heightened concerns over the huge and rapidly expanding array of nanotechnology products in the market that remains unregulated and are indeed toxic. Diseases associated with inhaled nanoparticles include asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, lung cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. Nanoparticles in the gastrointestinal tract have been linked to Crohn’s disease and colon cancer. Nanoparticles that enter the circulatory system are implicated in arteriosclerosis, blood clots, arrhythmia, heart diseases, and ultimately death from heart disease. Nanoparticles entering other organs, such as liver, spleen, etc., may lead to diseases of these organs. Some nanoparticles are associated with autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis. There is clearly an urgent need not only to stem but also to reverse the unregulated tide of nanoparticles that are released onto the market. Dr Mae-Wan Ho, ISIS Report * DSHEA Repeal Legislation Delayed, Not Dead  The NHF wants to thank its many members and others who responded to our Petition drive in opposition to S.3002, Senator John McCain's so-called “Dietary Supplement Safety Act” (DSSA). This egregious and uninformed bill has been promoted as an effort to eliminate the bad actors from the dietary-supplement industry, that is, those marketing products illegally spiked with steroid ingredients and used by body-builders and professional and amateur athletes. Our and others’ extensive lobbying efforts have been successful to a point, but it is important to remember that this legislative issue is not over until this Congress leaves town. Stay tuned, stay pro-active, and be persistently vocal and vigilant against all efforts to usurp our individual liberties. Press Release, National Health Federation * UK Data Liberty - Hang The Politicians The British General Election will soon be upon us. The scandal of the UK Database State has become an election issue for everyone of all colours, creed, religion and occupation. The vast majority of voters are a unified opposing force against the UK government’s data retention policies. These databases have become the corrosive civil liberties canker ravaging the face of Britain. Over two-thirds of Britons no longer trust the government with their personal data. The polls are currently predicting a Hung Parliament. The databases and data retention are an election issue on which all politicians may well hang high, together with their fraudulent expenses. Bring it on. Perhaps this predicted vote of no confidence in any particular political party will sufficiently shake up our system to deliver privacy and civil liberty results for the electorate. Jane Bryant, Director, The One Click Group * Doctors Call For Halt To NHS Patients' Database  Doctors' leaders have called for a halt in the development of a medical records database for patients in England. Some people are not aware that they are getting these records. Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the BMA, said: "Patients' right to opt out is crucial, and it is extremely alarming that records are apparently being created without them being aware of it." One Click Note: For the convenience of our UK readers we publish the Opt Out Form. Download it, print it, send it to your doctor and you will be protected from your private medical details being accessed by approximately 300,000 people in the UK and therefore the entire world. There is no such thing as secure personal data. BBC NEWS / The One Click Group Related Links: * Opt Out Form NHS Patient Database * Doctors Say NHS Database Raises Privacy Fears James Sturcke & Denis Campbell, The Guardian * How To Reclaim Your DNA UK  Have you or your child been arrested and had your DNA and fingerprints taken by the police? If so, you will probably have a computer record on Britain’s National DNA Database. The Government is currently keeping innocent people’s records on the DNA database illegally. At least 900,000 innocent people who have been arrested in England, Wales or Northern Ireland are thought to have their DNA and computer records retained. If you are concerned about how the Government might misuse this information, or fail to keep it safe, you can use this website to help you get your computer records deleted and your DNA destroyed. If you take action now you can make a difference to what happens to your DNA and help to change the law. Information Release, Reclaim Your DNA * Labour Government's Internet Law Threatens Free Speech  Do you use the internet while you're out and about? Maybe you access the public wifi in the library or your local coffee shop. Or you check out Facebook or YouTube at the station on the way to work. Don't get used to it. Because by this summer, public wifi in the UK may be a thing of the past, thanks to a new piece of law being pushed through by the Government's Lord Mandelson. The Digital Economy Bill passed through its third reading by the House of Lords last week and looks set to become law before the general election. Side-effects of the bill could lead to places with public wifi, such as libraries and cafes, facing prosecution if someone uses their service. "This is going to be a very unfortunate measure for small businesses," said Lilian Edwards, professor of internet law at Sheffield University. Iain Hepburn, Daily Record * Severe Weaknesses Found In USA Biodefense Lab Safety  The U.S. Army should fine-tune its procedures for determining safety risks in its projects following slip-ups in plans for the new site of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., a National Academy of Sciences committee said in a report issued Thursday (see GSN, Sept. 23, 2009). The Army provided insufficient evidence to back its conclusion that a release of the Ebola and Q-fever agents from the new facility would pose no threat to residences and commercial sites in Fredrick, a community numbering roughly 59,000 people. In addition, the Army did not explore possible security threats posed by laboratory personnel. The panel's decision to allow work on the facility to move forward was "unconscionable," said Robert Kozak, an activist with the Fort Detrick Watchdog Group. NTI, Global Security Newswire Related Links: * FOI Documents Reveal Multiple Leaks And Spills At National Virus BioLab Jen Skerritt, Vancouver Sun END SUMMARY Scroll down the website to read much more news on One Click or go to the News Archives The One Click Group |
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| Fury Over Rushed Digital Economy Bill Leads To Civil Unrest | ||
 17 March, 2010 Anger over rushed digital economy bill leads to online lobbying effort 38Degrees site becomes focus for demands that MPs consider unpopular bill more carefully Peter Mandelson at the 2009 Labour conference Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters The rushed process of getting the digital economy bill through Parliament – it had its first reading in the Commons on Tuesday night, having just had its third (and final) reading in the Lords on Monday night – has prompted an angry groundswell of people using 38Degrees to lobby their MPs to block it. The newly-created page on the 38Degrees site lets people find their MP via their postcode, and then email them to demand that the bill gets a proper debate - or is abandoned for this Parliament. (Disclosure: 38Degrees is a partner with the Guardian in its digital election coverage.) As the page puts it, "Peter Mandelson is rushing to force the digital economy Bill into law before the general election. The draconian law is opposed by industry experts, internet service providers (like TalkTalk and BT), web giants including Google, Yahoo and eBay and even the British Library. Despite all this opposition, the government is trying to rush it through quietly just before the election without proper debate – without a chance for us to voice our opposition. Email your MP now and urge them to stop the government rushing this law through." It's becoming clear that the bill won't get the proper scrutiny that is required for a bill of this importance due to the rush towards election. If the election is on 6 May, as is widely expected, then parliament will be dissolved on 6 April, meaning that any bills which haven't been passed by then but which are still in process and which the government wants to push through will go to the "wash-up", where they will be processed at top speed without debate through deals done by the whips of the three main parties. Tony Hirst of the Open University asks whether clause 97B - "The High Court (in Scotland, the Court of Session) shall have power to grant an injunction against a service provider, requiring it to prevent access to online locations specified in the order of the Court for the prevention of online copyright infringement" - could be used to block sites like Wikileaks (which after all exists for the reposting of material from organisations - which those organisations could argue is copyrighted). My reading is that it could - and it's no use government saying "oh, but we wouldn't". Bad law isn't made good law by not being used badly; it's made good by actually being well-drafted. The question now is whether the 38Degrees action - and any other action that citizens take - will have as much effect as some of the lobbying groups. As the 38Degrees page puts it, "There's plenty to oppose in the digital economy bill, it gives the government the ability to disconnect millions. Schools, libraries and businesses could see their connection cut if their pupils, readers of customers infringe any copyright. But one group likes it, the music industry. In a leaked memo a few days ago they admitted the only way to get the bill through would be to rush it through without a real parliamentary debate. Let's stop that happening." Judging by the number of clickthroughs to the page (more than 3,000 at 12.20pm) and Twitter links to the page, this is proving a popular topic. The key question now: will MPs be listening, will they take action, and will that make any difference? It might be the sort of thing that could win you votes... ************* Related Links: * Stop The Disconnection Demo Launches At Parliament Demo Information, Open Rights Group * Criminal Whitewash: UK Digital Economy Bill Barry Collins, PC Pro * Open Letter - Bill threatens UK’s reputation Tom Alexander, Chief Executive Orange et al, Financial Times * UK Industry And Electorate Alike Condemn Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill Sophie Curtis, eWeek Europe ************* |
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| HSS Preparing To Handle Swine Flu Vaccine Claims | ||
One Click Note: This is the pharmaceutical industry's get-out clause. Not only did it hoax billions of dollars out of respective taxpayers' for the damaging and unnecessary Swine Flu vaccines, but it also got most governments around the world to agree to grant its products legal immunity. This has been one of the greatest government orchestrated taxpayer swindles of all time. March 16, 2010 HHS preparing to handle claims of harm from H1N1 vaccine By Rita Uplend H1N1 WASHINGTON — While the pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine seems to be just as safe as seasonal flu vaccines, the federal government has been getting some letters from people saying they plan to seek compensation for injuries caused by the injection, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. As of March 11, HHS had received letters from 106 people saying they plan to submit claims for compensation benefits because of problems related to the vaccine, according to David Bowman, a spokesman for HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration. At this point HRSA is accepting only letters of intent to file claims, rather than actual claims, because the administrative policies and procedures for handling them have not yet been approved, Bowman reported. He said the agency has no information yet on what kinds of injuries people are claiming. People who think they were injured by the H1N1 vaccine, or by certain other pandemic-related medical items such as flu antiviral drugs, must write to HHS about it within a year from when they were vaccinated or treated, according to the agency. That preserves their right to file a claim later, after the regulations for claim processing have been approved. Injury claims related to the pandemic vaccine are covered by the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program, which was set up to deal with claims related to countermeasures for pandemic flu, bioterrorist attacks and other public health emergencies. The CICP is separate from the much older Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which handles claims pertaining to seasonal flu vaccines and routine childhood vaccines, CIDRAP News reported. The CICP was established under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, passed in 2005, which shields pharmaceutical companies and medical providers from most lawsuits claiming harm from medical countermeasures for pandemic flu and other public health threats, with the aim of helping to ensure a supply of countermeasures. The law set up the CICP in lieu of the right to pursue damages in court, with few exceptions. The HHS secretary determines which countermeasures are needed to respond to declared threats. Claims related to the H1N1 vaccine are not covered at this point by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, established in the 1980s, because it is "not currently a vaccine recommended by the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] for routine administration to children," Bowman said, adding that seasonal flu vaccine is covered by the older program because it is routinely recommended. "If the H1N1 pandemic vaccine becomes a component of the trivalent seasonal vaccine [as is currently planned for next year's flu season], then it would be covered by the VICP and not the CICP at that time," Bowman said. Besides the H1N1 vaccine, countermeasures currently covered by the CICP program include vaccines and drugs for anthrax and smallpox, under HHS declarations made in 2008, according to Bowman. Many members of the U.S. military receive anthrax and smallpox vaccinations, depending on where they are deployed. Bowman said the CICP covers claims from military members related to those immunizations, but so far the program hasn't received any claims from military personnel, he reported. He said the program is planning to make a presentation to the Department of Defense's vaccine agency to inform officials about the program and to request that they provide vaccine recipients with information about it. In an update last week, the CDC said the volume and types of reports to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System indicates that the H1N1 vaccine has a safety profile very similar to that of seasonal flu vaccines, which are regarded as very safe. ********** Related Links: * Swine Flu Pandemic Hysteria Hoax Heads For Court R. C. Camphausen, Digital Journal * The men who made a killing out of swine flu while we wasted £1bn and were exposed to harmful drugs Special Investigation Tom Rawstorne, Daily Mail * UK Government Swine Flu Drug Dealers Forgot To Insert Cancel Clause In £200m Contract Victoria Fletcher, Daily Express ********** |
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| The Deadly Cervical Cancer Vaccine Bazaar - Health Authorities' Cover Up | ||
From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 7, Issue 11, Dated March 20, 2010 The Cervical Cancer Bazaar YOUNG GIRLS ARE BEING GIVEN ANTI-CANCER JABS, WITH DUBIOUS RESULTS, FIND SHANTANU GUHA RAY AND KUNAL MAJUMDER  Photo: VIJAY PANDEY EACH TIME Nageshwara and Venkatamma are asked about Sarita, the farm labourers point to a framed photograph of their daughter. And then they huddle near the entrance of their one-room house in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh and weep inconsolably, recounting a tale of death that came home without warning.  LETHAL DOSE? Maramma’s daughter Sayamma died within seven weeks of being vaccinated Photo: KUNAL MAJUMDER On January 21 this year, Venkatamma found the motionless body of her 13-year-old daughter on the floor. At first she thought her daughter — a student of Lakshminagaram Residential Hostel — had consumed pesticide to commit suicide, possibly after a failed love affair. But the pesticide bottle was intact on the shelf. Sarita was rushed to the nearest healthcare centre where a small team of paramedics and a doctor confirmed that it wasn’t a case of poisoning and referred Sarita to the Bhadrachalam area hospital, 25 km from their house in Anjupaka village. En route, Sarita had a severe epileptic fit. Doctors at the hospital declared that she was “brought dead” and conducted a postmortem. The report was not handed to the parents. At the Nallipaka Public Health Centre (PHC)—which records all births and deaths in the region — Sarita’s death was recorded as suicide. Nageshwara and Venkatamma refused to accept this and cremated their daughter under protest. “My daughter did not commit suicide. She did not consume poison,” Nageshwara says firmly. “She had started having fits after the vaccine. She told us, so did the hostel supervisor. The hospital officers are lying.” Dr R Balasudha, a paramedic at the PHC in the Narshapuram block under which Anjupaka village falls, adds: “Sarita was not dead when she was brought to the PHC. She did not consume any poison. She was having severe bouts of epileptic attacks and was very, very sick.” Sarita’s hapless parents learned of a similar death on August 30 last year in Yerragattu village, 60 km from Bhadrachalam. Another 13-year-old, Sodi Sayamma, had died there, with doctors calling it a suicide. But Sayamma’s parents, also farm labourers, said their daughter had not consumed poison or hanged herself. In both cases, the PHCS confirmed the girls had not consumed poison and referred the cases to the Bhadrachalam area hospital. Interestingly, the PHCs — one in Gowrideviteta block covering Yerragattu village and another in Narshapuram block — were responsible for administering the vaccine for the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in these villages. The HPV, which is transmitted sexually, is one of the many known causes of cervical cancer. Gardasil, the commercially licensed HPV vaccine produced by Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD), an affiliate of US-based pharmaceutical giant Merck and Co Inc, is supposed to prevent cervical cancer when administered to pre-puberty girls. The Indian unit of the Seattle-based PATH, one of the world’s largest healthcare NGOs, began the HPV vaccination drive on July 9 last year as a demonstration project in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. Part of the goal was to vaccinate 14,000 girls in Khammam district — a large percentage of them from poor, tribal families — with three doses of Gardasil. The three zones selected in the district were Thirumalayapalem (urban), Kothagudem (rural) and Bhadrachalam (tribal).  The controversial Glaxo SmithKline campaign that was banned by the Health Ministry BUT THE drive raises serious ethical questions. Did the producers of this drug and their field partners declare the full range of possible side-effects? Did the parents of these minors give “informed” consent? What is the criterion on which the target population for the vaccine was selected? And are there sufficient screening mechanisms in place to report and check on any “adverse events” or side-effects? Sources in Hyderabad say that D Nagender, the Andhra Pradesh Health and Family Welfare Minister, worked closely with PATH and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on the project. The ministry says the blocks were chosen because of high incidence of cervical cancer in the region. But this claim is disputed by many. “There is no document available to prove this. It is a blatant lie,” says NB Sarojini of the Sama Resource Group for Women and Health, which, along with 80 other health networks and medical practitioners, sent a memorandum last October to the health ministry on the issue. PATH claims the side-effects associated with the vaccine are negligible — nothing more than a “pain in the arm after a jab”. However, organisations like the US-based Judicial Watch and the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), a US government body, list a range of potential side-effects associated with the Gardasil vaccine. Among them are blood clots, auto-immune disorders, seizures, epileptic fits and severe allergies. In Khammam, besides Sayamma and Sarita’s deaths, around 120 students developed complications after the vaccination — ranging from epileptic fits, allergies, diarrhoea, dizziness and nausea. News of this first began to emerge in small reports on TV 9, a regional news channel. Dr R Balasudha, a medical officer at the Narshapuram PHC, confirms this. This PHC was one of the four targeted for the drive in Bhadrachalam block from July 16, 2009 to February 28, 2010. Dr Shekhar, associated with the Nallipaka PHC, who had a target of 2,400 children but could manage only 1,800 till February 27, adds: “Many developed complications, but we don’t know if they turned serious since we aren’t in touch with the girls.” “This is a very serious cover-up,” says CPM leader Brinda Karat, who plans to raise the issue in Parliament. “India needs to be careful about the side-effects of these vaccines and a detailed investigation should be done by the Health Ministry as to why these tribal and semi-literate girls were picked for such a drive. It is a wrong notion, nurtured by many, that tribal girls are more sexually active and hence should be targeted for such drives,” says Karat, who came to know about the matter recently through the Andhra Pradesh unit of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA). image  NUMBERS GAME. NGO PATH says 32,000 girls in the 10-14 age group will be vaccinated in Khamman during the first phase PATH, which asserts that it has followed every international guideline in conducting the demonstration project, however, seems to be trying hard to limit the damage caused by the deaths and the disclosures of side-effects. “We were only commissioned by the Welfare Department of the Andhra Pradesh Government and were not involved in physically administering the vaccine. We were the technical partner and just went along with the state government team,” says a top PATH official, without disclosing the amount the organisation received to implement the demonstration project, titled the PATH-ICMR Post-licensure Observational Study of HPV vaccination funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  IMMUNE? District Immunity Officer Dr B Jaikumar was responsible for the vaccination of 14,000 girls in Khammam district Photo: KUNAL MAJUMDER “If there is a problem with the vaccine, it is for MSD to respond, not us,” says the PATH official, adding that the NGO plans to administer the vaccine to 18,000 more girls in Khammam this year, to help determine if this vaccine can be included in the National Vaccination Scheme. “We firmly believe this is the least risky vaccine available to prevent cervical cancer and we want to help make it available to the poorest sections of our society. We are bound by confidentiality clauses and cannot reveal any details about any ‘adverse events’. All we can say is that we are monitoring it very closely and there is nothing to be concerned about,” says another PATH representative. “Reporting such incidents out of context will jeopardise this entire public health programme.” Shockingly, however, Dr B Jaikumar, the District Immunity Officer of Khammam and the man responsible for the drive there, says he has no idea why the region was selected. He does not have any statistics regarding major cancer incidence in the area, nor do he or his team have any means to check the effectiveness of the vaccine or measure its after affects. So why was the vaccine administered? “I am not aware of the reasons,” says Jaikumar. “The Commissioner of Family Welfare said we have to do it here.” Ask him if his district was being used as a human laboratory, and he replies, “The tests have been done in the international market.” But Jaikumar himself has not read any international medical literature on the vaccine: It is for the state government to read such stuff, not him, he says. |
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| Anapol Schwartz Attorneys File HPV Vaccine Lawsuits | ||
16 Mar 2010 Anapol Schwartz Files Gardasil Vaccine Complaints Anapol Schwartz attorneys Lawrence Cohan and Melissa Fry Hague recently filed two Gardasil vaccine complaints - one on behalf of a Kensington, Calif., family, whose 15-year old daughter died after suffering from severe adverse reactions, and another on behalf of a 19-year old Lapeer, Mich., woman, who has a chronic, autoimmune disorder. The cases, filed in The Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C., seek recovery under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. "Our two cases represent an increasing number of recent, adverse reaction reports we're seeing in young women who have received the Gardasil vaccine. The outcomes in these matters have been horrific," says co-lead counsel Cohan, a New Jersey Certified Civil Trial Attorney representing more than 50 consumers with Gardasil claims. First approved in 2006, Gardasil is designed to protect women and girls from several of the human papillomavirus (HPV) strains likely to cause genital warts and cervical cancer - the second most common cancer among women. In Tetlock v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Jennifer Tetlock received the third in the series of the Gardasil vaccine and began to experience progressive weakness in her body. Soon after, she developed muscle atrophy of the lower extremities and right upper extremity weakness with tingling and numbness. Suffering from a progressing neurodegenerative disorder, she rapidly deteriorated, became confined to a wheelchair and ultimately passed away two years post-vaccination. In Freese v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, plaintiff Monica Freese received the Gardasil vaccine along with a meningitis vaccine. A couple weeks later, Freese began feeling numbness and tingling in her hands and toes. After a series of doctor visits and increased leg weakness, she was diagnosed with acute Guillain-Barré syndrome, a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system. Despite brief improvement and intense physical therapy, Freese suffered a relapse and continues to experience severe neurological difficulties. "Vaccines are certainly a critical part of our public health program, and all required vaccines should be received. However, in the case of optional vaccines, like Gardasil, it's vital to talk to your physician about whether the benefits outweigh the risks," states Cohan, who has been handling complex plaintiff's cases for 30 years. Source Anapol Schwartz ************* Related Links: * New Report Raises Gardasil Vaccine Concerns Information Release, NewsInferno ************* |
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| WHO Suspends Sanofi Shan5 Child Vaccine Amid Probe | ||
March 17, 2010 WHO Suspends Sanofi Shan5 Child Vaccine Amid Probe (Update2) By Trista Kelley and Dermot Doherty The World Health Organization is conducting a probe into Sanofi-Aventis SA’s Shan5 vaccine, used to prevent childhood diseases in poor nations, after reports of a white sediment forming on the glass of some vials. “An investigation is ongoing and we’ve advised countries to put any remaining vaccine in quarantine until further notice,” said WHO spokeswoman Melinda Henry in a phone interview today. The shot is a combination to prevent diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, haemophilus influenza B, and hepatitis B. About 23 million doses have been shipped to United Nations agencies in 12 countries, mostly in Africa, Sanofi’s Pasteur vaccine unit said in an e-mailed statement today. The vaccine is produced at a plant in Hyderabad, India. “WHO recommends that countries should use another pentavalent vaccine in the meantime,” said Henry, who was unable to say how long the investigation would last. None of the information available suggests a safety problem, she said. “We are currently assessing the number of doses involved with the current situation,” Sanofi said. The WHO’s suspension of the shot is a “precautionary measure pending outcome of an investigation of vaccine quality,” the Paris-based drugmaker said. Sanofi dropped 93 cents, or 1.6 percent, to close at 56.28 euros in Paris trading. $340 Million Contract Sanofi’s Shantha unit in September won a $340 million contract from the United Nations Children’s fund to provide Shan5 from 2010 to 2012. Crucell NV, the Dutch maker of the competing Quinvaxem vaccine, may have an advantage during the investigation, according to Jefferies International Ltd. analyst Peter Welford in London. “The news underscores the potential upside from Crucell securing future awards,” Welford wrote in a note to clients today. “Quality control concerns for competing vaccines are more likely to benefit Quinvaxem in later years, in our view, particularly if Crucell is able to secure a greater share of future Unicef awards.” |
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| Stop The Disconnection Demo Launches At Parliament | ||
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